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Tax-Loss Harvest Finder

Sell the loss, keep the exposure. For any fund, ranked stand-ins that track the same market — scored on a year of price correlation, holdings overlap, and fee — with a flag when two funds follow the same index and a swap could look substantially identical.

Correlation computed on ~250 shared sessions per pair · not tax advice — the flag is a heuristic, your compliance desk has the final word

Fund to harvestTry:IVVQQQAGG
Stand-ins for VFVA — Vanguard U.S. Value Factor ETF
SubstituteCorrelationBook overlapFee vs VFVAAssetsWash-sale read
ISCV iShares Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF0.91412%-7bp$661Mdifferent indexCompare
IMCV iShares Morningstar Mid-Cap Value ETF0.88517%-7bp$1.1Bdifferent indexCompare
VOE Vanguard Mid-Cap Value Index Fund0.82713%-6bp$17.5Bdifferent indexCompare
DGRO iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF0.81513%-5bp$42.4Bdifferent indexCompare
MDYV State Street SPDR S&P 400 Mid Cap Value ETF0.85711%+2bp$2.7Bdifferent indexCompare
IVOV Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 Value ETF0.85211%+2bp$923Mdifferent indexCompare

RANKED BY CORRELATION, FEE, AND OVERLAP · “SAME INDEX” PAIRS ARE FLAGGED BECAUSE THE IRS HAS NEVER DEFINED “SUBSTANTIALLY IDENTICAL” — MOST DESKS TREAT SAME-INDEX SWAPS AS OFF-LIMITS AND DIFFERENT-INDEX SWAPS AS DEFENSIBLE

Cached coverage for 2,091 funds. Latest price/flow record dates: 2024-08-23 to 2026-10-05 (1,063 funds with dated records). Fund details retrieved: 2026-09-25 to 2026-10-07. Data dates vary by fund; these are not live quotes. Flow totals include available records only; missing coverage is not evidence of zero flow.

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